Case 5-1 Income Smoothing a. Firstly‚ investors tend to invest in companies with stable earnings rather than one with volatile earnings. With stable earnings‚ there will be more likely an issuance of dividends and investors could easily predict the company’s future earnings compared to one with unstable earnings. With consistent earnings generated‚ it gives investors a secured feeling that it will again generate earnings as predicted. Confidence in the growth of rate of earnings is crucial because
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INCOME TAX NOTES Residential Status and Incidence of Tax According to Section 5 of the Income Tax Act the scope of total Income of an assessee depends on his residential status.On the basis of residential status assessee are classified under the following two categories: 1. Resident 2. Non-resident. As per as resident individuals and Hindu Undivided Families are concerned‚ they can be further divided into two categories: 1. Ordinarily Resident 2. Not ordinarily Resident. Residential
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Definition of Tax “Taxes are compulsory payment to government without expectation of direct return in benefit to the tax payer” According to section 2 (62) of the ITO (Income Tax Ordinance) 1984: “Tax means the income tax payable under ordinance and includes any additional tax‚ excess profit tax‚ penalty‚ interest‚ fees or other charges leviable or payable under this ordinance.” Characteristics of Tax i. Tax is a payment to the government by the people. ii. Payment of taxes is non-penal
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Income Inequality Gap Over the years America’s inequality income gap has been growing‚ between the rich and the poor. There are many reasons why this is happening. Andrew Carnegie‚ John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz may agree with me‚ but believe there are different reasons why and how it should be dealt with. I would have to say that I agree that Galbraith’s idea is what is better for America now. In the essay “The Gospel of Wealth” Andrew Carnegie says that the rich should invest
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healthcare‚ income inequality and poverty. Time to time changes in policies have been made‚ perhaps to improve these issues‚ however‚ the gap between rich and poor keeps increasing and there is very little improvement in healthcare and the economy. In fact‚ healthcare keeps on becoming costly. Major issues like income inequality and poverty are not being taken care of by the government. According to Dr. Raphael (2002) poverty is caused by several reasons such as inequality in people’s income‚ weak social
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National income‚ by itself‚ doesn’t tell us very much about the standard of living in a country. The national income of India exceeds that of Canada but no on would claim that India was a better place to live for the typical member of the population. India’s is higher simply because the population is 1.2 billion‚ there is enormous public-sector spending and high inward investment because of high interest rates and so on. What is more important is national income per head of the population.
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Budget Summary My perception of quality of life changed dramatically during this project. Living at a low income wage was a difficult thing to do especially at $26‚560 a year. Living with all of the basic necessities took up a large portion of my paycheck. At a wage where my wife and I are barely getting our family by is stressful on many levels. I was trying to find the best deals on food and after school care without sacrificing quality and health. Cheaper food was not nutritional so I had to
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Professor Douglas English 1-A 26 May 2013 Works Cited Dobelstein‚ Andrew W. Moral Authority‚ Ideology‚ And The Future Of American Social Welfare. [N.p.]: Westview Press‚ 1999. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 15 May 2013. Frank‚ Robert. “Income inequality: Too Big to Ignore”. Graff‚ Gerald‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. "They Say‚ I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing : With Readings. New York: Norton‚ 2012. 432-447 Print. Murray‚ Harry. "Deniable Degradation: The Finger-Imaging
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difficult to do so. There are also two main different types of mindsets: fixed and growth. A fixed mindset is described as understanding intelligence‚ talents‚ and abilities as static characteristics of an individual’s nature. People who adhere to a fixed mindset believe that these characteristics are not able to change or develop and thus consider themselves to be at their best at all times. Therefore‚ individuals with a fixed mindset attempt to appear as infallible in an effort to prolong cognitive
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superior to fixed rates in dealing with major shocks such as oil price increases? Explain why floating exchange rates did not produce a reduction in the US balance of payments deficit during the early 1980s? Describe the system that was developed to replace floating exchange rates. First we need to explain what fixed and floating exchange rates are. Fixed exchange rate regime is a regime in which central banks buy and sell their own currencies to keep their exchange rates fixed at a certain
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